Confused World: Hatfield by Crystal Fur

Welcome to Milo’s World of Parallel Confusion.

Recapture 1

It is cold and windy, visibility is low, I can’t see Cat-erfall anywhere, I have to watch my step. I don't want to fall down the cliff. Yet in all this confusion I can still remember Cat-erfall so vividly, her cape as smooth as a waterfall. I can never forget her smile. Everything seems to be going dark, was this really the end of a timeline?

Every timeline is connected like one delicate thread, one thread that only editors can cut and leave floating in the vast emptiness. Although I am in a recaptured memory I have a device that is able to travel through the Chronium Fluxite lands in which my home timeline is connected to. I click a set sequence of buttons on my watch that I wear. Someone who I loved dearly gave it to me. With one last look to see if Cat-erfall was still here I was gone.

It takes several seconds but it is like this feeling of having no body. In these several seconds I experience all these memories of my life once again. Several seconds, it feels more like a lifetime.

There I am standing, making sure I am all in one piece. I take off my earpiece and exit the transporter, I go to my room, a routine that has been done many times, and lay face flat on my soft and comfortable bed.

I can’t sleep. Am I too tired to sleep? Am I too worried about Cat-erfall? All these thoughts worrying me don’t let me sleep! I look out the window, the typical view of the city at the other side of the river. Research of this laboratory has been funded for many years by a global organization called Hatfield Research, first it was about space travel but ever since my discovery of the timelines, more research has been put more into that for obvious reasons, money and power. I travel everyday to other timelines just to find compatible places for outposts. We have only been able to create 3 stable tunnels to different outposts.

I encountered Cat-erfall on one of my first travels to different timelines in the Timenet. She is like me, an explorer, she only seemed to wear a blue shirt, a purple skirt and a blue cape and no shoes. I can’t imagine walking on land without shoes. It was weird finding someone like Cat-erfall, she has a whole army of more than 70,000,000 soldiers, she is a queen from where she comes from. But just a normal explorer, just like me.

I hear noises outside the window, it seems to have started raining, the sounds of the drops of water seem to make me feel tired.

Recapture 2

I met Cat-erfall on my third trip to a common timeline that other travelers use, it is often referred to as the Timenet, such an unoriginal name in my opinion. It is managed by a group of people that advocate for free use to timelines that have already been hugely affected by timeline travelers. People often set up stands to trade things, it is often advanced technology that is traded. The ability to travel to different timelines is not really governed by anybody; it has been going for more than 50 years. Of course that doesn't stop anybody from using it for bad intentions. Cat-erfall was just walking around with her same looking clothes she always wears, she had told her tailor to create many clothes of the same design. She had a great amount of wealth for someone who doesn't wear shoes. The most used currency item here is refined Chronium Fluxite.

And there I was looking at Cat-erfall. She was trading some refined Chronium Fluxite for 3 metal cylinders, (Cat-erfall: “Good thing these are enclosed, am I right?”). She must have seen me looking at her. I noticed that she got some thorium cylinders, (“Hehe, yea.”). She was beautiful, (“What is a pretty person like you doing here?”). I had to take a moment to think of what I had said. Was I flirting with her? Cat-erfall had started blushing. We became friends.

When I woke up, it was still raining outside. The amount of water on earth had increased after the country's space program brought in comets that were mostly water. It was a decision that had to be made even if it was risky. Not much to talk about. Just the rain time on earth has increased in a lot of areas.

This laboratory has several sections, in these sections they include whole apartments for living and working on site. I go to the kitchen and grab a box of crackers and go sit on the sofa. I turn on the TV, not much thought. Just some regular news of the weather and politics. I dislike politics, this world is dumb, why am I using such dumb words. I have not spoken to anyone in this world for more than a month.

It is starting to feel like traveling to other worlds is my home. What if I just never return? What if I go on out there on other timelines and their worlds?

Ha! I could never. I’m fine in a world where it rains a lot. If I could leave it would be a boring life of not having a goal. Here I am, just waiting till the goal is met. To become useless. I could try to leave but I can’t. I want to explore again. Like in my past life. But this is my life.

For now I just do this job.

Recapture 3

Getting up the sofa I head to the transporter room, get my watch and earpiece ready, I make sure I have everything I need to travel. I hit a sequence to the last place I went, the last place I saw Cat-erfall.

Timeline jump commences, the feeling of nothing, my whole life.

There I am in a different place than before, it is so different. Yet so normal. Blue skies, what seems to be land of soft grass going into the horizon. Every world can be different. It just depends on how It was created. I guess I’ll walk, I hear nothing, the sound nothing just is all around. I wish I could see her again. I hope she is okay. One hour there is nothing, this world is not spherical, it just goes and on and on. I just keep walking. There is no end. It just goes on.

A memory runs in my head, a memory of when I was just a kid. A kid just having fun. Having friends, everything seemed so fine.

It all seems so strange. This is the correct timeline, just that there's nothing? Even if a timeline ends, wouldn’t everything just be the same? But with no one? I wonder where she is, I worry about her. Why can't I stop thinking about her? I need to find a way to find her. She had never told me where her home timeline is located. We have only been friends for 4 months, going on exploring other timelines, but never talked much, we were just helping each other gather info on timelines, almost like creating a map. It would have been disrespectful for me to track her. I just really hope she is fine. I check my watch, it seems time does not go forward here.

Where is light coming from? How can there be light in this world? Could these be a dead world? There are many worlds that feel weird, but this one just feels completely dead. Am I dead? I think I’m fainting, I try to grab my water container.

Recapture 4

I’m awake. Again? Dead? Alive? I’m in the same place. It really feels weird that there is nothing here. I look around. There she is. Just standing there in the distance. Her head is tilted. Is she fine?

(“Apologies for the inconvenience of controlling your friend you call Cat-erfall”) she said. If that was really her. (“Who the hell are you?”) I asked. (“I am a Fluxendale Editor if you did not know, we take control of Fluxendale Hosts to view your world. Needless to say, you seem to have an emotional attachment to this host.”) she said.

Was I losing my mind? I always knew Cat-erfall was another species but never knew it implicated this much. A species with 2 types being able to connect and control each other? I never imagined something like this. Yet again, I never knew timeline traveling was possible until I was able to do it.

(“What do you need?”) I said. Cat-erfall seemed to try to walk. She seemed to lose balance. (“Hosts are such a waste of space, they are so primitive, these legs are so weak.”) she said. She tripped and fell on the ground. (“I’ll be back when I learn to travel as a host!”) she said before closing her eyes.

(“Milo?”) Cat-erfall said. Was she back in control? Was this really Cat-erfall speaking? I helped Cat-erfall stand up and I gave her a hug. (“What happened?”) Cat-erfall said while she looked dizzy. I’m glad she was fine. I hope nothing happens.